On this Thanksgiving, I express my deep gratitude to the annelid worms – who turn out to be much smarter than you might think!
The Humble Annelid Worms
Tag: invertebrates
Cuttlefish hearing – in living color
Cuttlefish are perhaps one of the more complicated critters you’re likely to encounter. Related to the squids and the octopus they have many of the same highly visual adaptation of being able to rapidly change color and even textures of…
Noise impacts on fish and invertebrates workshop
I spent last week in San Diego attending a workshop sponsored by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on the impacts of human generated noise on marine fish and invertebrates. Having watched the field of ocean noise impacts roll…
New lab evidence substantiates noise impacts on invertebrates
Bioacoustician Michele André et.al. from the Catalonian “Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics” has published a paper which examines the impacts of low frequency (50Hz–400Hz) noise on cephalopods – squid, octopus, and cuttlefish. Exposed to surprisingly low levels of sinusoid noise…